On 6/30/05, Tim Kirk <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a newly install Fedora Core 4 machine which I am trying to > update from a local repository - mirrored from the mirrored from > mirrorservice.org in the uk using the following script : > > #!/bin/csh > (cd /yum/ ; /usr/bin/wget -nH --cut-dirs=1 -N -r -np -R iso ftp:// > www.mirrorserv > ice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com) When I look in this mirror for the file you are trying to get, I don't see it: [greg@porter ~]$ wget ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml --07:12:54-- ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml' Resolving www.mirrorservice.org... 212.219.56.152, 212.219.56.162, 212.219.56.131, ... Connecting to www.mirrorservice.org[212.219.56.152]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /sites/fedora.redhat.com/4/i386/repodata ... No such directory `sites/fedora.redhat.com/4/i386/repodata'. [greg@porter ~]$ You said that this is a fresh FC4 install - as in not an upgrade, right? What is your yum version? # yum --version <snip> > A fair amount of google searching, and including list archives from > this list, hasn't helped. I am able to ftp in to 'jjonah' and browse > the repository without any permissions problems, and the file/ > directory ownerships on the pre FC4 sections of the repository are > the same as those in the FC4 area. I can even browse the repository > using the urls from the yum.conf cut&pasted straight into a browser > window. Even opening the ftp links directly from a terminal when > viewing the yum.conf with 'more' works, but yum doesn't... > > Does anyone have any idea what I can do next to try to isolate or > correct this problem? > You can FTP in and change directories, but all the way to repodata/repomd.xml ? Are you making that file in a script somewhere else? Greg
